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Major powers to meet on Iran this week
Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:06am GMT
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By Fredrik Dahl
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Major powers plan to meet in London this week to discuss
new sanctions on Iran amid a spat between Washington and the U.N. atomic energy
watchdog over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, U.S. officials said.
The officials in Washington, who asked not to be named because they were not
authorised to discuss the matter in public, said they expected the five
permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany to meet towards the
end
of the week.
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who left Tehran on Wednesday
after a short visit, suggested a unified approach was a way off, telling
reporters
"economic unilateral sanctions ... will not help the continued collective
effort", an apparent reference to new U.S. punitive measures announced last
week.
The Iranian news agency IRNA, reporting Lavrov's departure, gave no further
details of his talks.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech on Tuesday that Iran
would not retreat in the dispute and dismissed U.S. offers of broader
negotiations if Iran suspends its most sensitive atomic activities.
"This nation will not negotiate with anyone over its obvious and legal
rights," he said. "... the Iranian nation does not need America."
This week's meeting of the so-called P5+1 -- the United States, Great
Britain, France and Germany, Russia and China-- was to have taken place two
weeks
ago, but China pulled out in protest against the U.S. Congress' plan to honour
the Dalai Lama.
Its purpose is to discuss a possible third U.N. Security Council resolution
imposing sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.
It was unclear whether the London meeting would take place on Thursday or on
Friday.
The world's major powers agreed in late September to delay a vote on tougher
sanctions on Iran until late November at the earliest, depending on reports by
the U.N. nuclear watchdog and a European Union negotiator.
GIVE IRAN MORE TIME
Russia and China opposed an early move to tighten economic sanctions, saying
Tehran should be given more time to cooperate with the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) to shed light on its past activities.
Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei has annoyed Washington by suggesting its
sometimes harsh stance toward Tehran was counter-productive. On Sunday, he
urged
Iran's critics to "stop spinning and hyping the Iranian issue".
Washington slapped new sanctions on Iran last week and recent months have
seen somewhat belligerent rhetoric that has prompted speculation of possible
U.S.
military action before President George W. Bush steps down in January 2009.
Bush recently suggested a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to World War Three,
but a White House spokeswoman said on Tuesday that was a "hypothetical
situation" and the president was determined to resolve the standoff through
diplomacy.
"There is no intention of bombing Iran," Dana Perino told reporters. "We are
on a diplomatic track. We are working with our partners in the U.N. Security
Council."
Visiting Tehran two weeks ago, President Vladimir Putin said Russia would not
accept military strikes against Iran. Russia says dialogue is the way to ease
tensions.
The Lavrov visit coincides with a crucial round of talks in Tehran between
officials from Iran and the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency watchdog on
implementing an August deal meant to resolve questions about past secret
Iranian activity.
ElBaradei will report to the agency's 35-nation board of governors in
mid-November. If Iran has not answered sensitive questions by then, Western
powers
say they will then move to have harsh U.N. sanctions adopted.
The Council has already imposed two sets of limited sanctions on Iran for its
refusal to halt enrichment, a process to make fuel for nuclear power plants
that can also, if refined further, provide material for bombs.
Iran says its nuclear programme is to generate electricity so it can export
more of its valuable oil and gas.
The United States last week broadened its own longstanding sanctions to
include part of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and accused the most important wing
of
Tehran's military of spreading weapons of mass destruction.
(Additional reporting by Frederick Dahl in Tehran, Christian Lowe and James
Kilner in Moscow, Mark Heinrich in Vienna, and by Zahra Hosseinian and Reza
Derakhshi in Tehran)
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